Career Coaching: Who’s on Your Team? My business rule is “Don’t try and do it alone”. The image of the sole-trader, the founder, and the entrepreneur is often a lonesome one. Not true in my opinion. In fact, if isolation IS a truth, the longevity of any enterprise is likely to be limited. If you have […]
Career Coaching: Persistent Need. What do you do when you have a persistent need to do or achieve something when everyone around you is telling you to ‘get a proper job’ In my experience you do what you need to do anyways – that’s what I learned. Many, many people told me that it was […]
Career Coaching: Your Brilliance – Have you ever noticed how hard it is to recognise your own strengths and brilliance? Are you surprised when people say nice things about you, to you? If so this might be why – You might not be letting those complements into your soul. Why? Because we have been raised in a culture […]
Career Coaching: Alchemy. Today I witnessed as a client worked their way through a tricky time in their life. By the end of the session, they had worked out that this tricky-bit had given them their gift. As painful as it was to see, it was so good to see this outcome. I can say the same […]
Career Coaching – Relaunching. Many people are showing up here discontented with how their careers are right now. Many of them showed up to their careers advice session at school with high aspirations. Only to have their aspirations, of being barristers, authors, journalists dashed. To be told it ‘wasn’t possible’, that ‘It wouldn’t make money‘, […]
Career Coaching: Do What You Love. A client said yesterday ‘are you treating me like a normal client, Rebecca?”. I stopped taking notes and responded ‘what makes you ask that?”. She said, “well, I didn’t know this would be enjoyable… are we actually getting any work done?” To be fair we had just been giggling, However, This question! After […]
Career Coaching: Routines: So, when the shit hits the fan in your world, what do you do? I’m noticing a good trait in my world. When the shit hits the fan here, when I know I’m in for a stint of it, I double down on my self-care routines. What does that mean? It means putting […]
Career Coaching: Body-Swerving Burnout: I am an absolute Daemon for being stoic and ‘pushing on through’. Now what I’m learning is when I need to quit! Sitting at my desk yesterday I was overcome by a surge of exhaustion. I looked at the client notes needing typing up, the 60,000 words of the book that needed […]
Career Coaching: Business is Booming. Before COVID-19 came along, I was working too hard. As I write these words, they have sunk in a little deeper. The business was booming. I was working with up to five clients a day. By the last client of each day, I would feel like I was totally on-it—adrenaline racing […]
Career Coaching: Triggered! I had no idea how hard I find it to ask for help. How did I learn this? I learned this when I needed some minor medical attention from the NHS. Referred to a ‘fast track service’ just before I went abroad for a fortnight, I arrived home to find that my appointment had […]